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A ‘routine’ year: Pope’s 2011 calendar holds full slate of events

VATICAN CITY – For Pope Benedict XVI, the 2011 calendar already holds a full slate of meetings, liturgies and foreign trips.
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CRS steps it up in a time of crisis

Kenneth Hackett knows things are bad when the Missionaries of Charity come knocking on his doors at the international headquarters of Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore.
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Cougars even the score with Archbishop Spalding

Could it have been the new bleachers that arrived in Middle River at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School gymnasium that spurred the first-place Cougars on to a five-game volleyball match victory over the second-place Archbishop Spalding High School Cavaliers?
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Church court defrocks New York priest after finding him guilty of abuse

NEW YORK – A Vatican court has found a suspended New York archdiocesan priest, Charles M. Kavanagh, guilty of sexually abusing a minor in the late 1970s and has dismissed him from the clerical state.
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Faith is key to success, says Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The University of Florida’s head basketball coach, Billy Donovan, said he is a “big believer that everything starts with God.”
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St. Joseph Medical Center shines in Tanzania

The folks at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson quickly learned that in Tanzania, Africa, wellness goes beyond simply providing health care.
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Church must repent, repair damage caused by clerical abuse, pope says

VATICAN CITY – In response to the “unimaginable” scandal of clerical sex abuse against minors, the church must reflect, repent, and do everything possible to rectify the injustices suffered by victims as it works to prevent such abuse from ever happening again, said Pope Benedict XVI.
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Priests for Life takes education campaign on abortion to Congress

WASHINGTON – Abortion supporters, including members of Congress and candidates for public office, are being challenged to explain their understanding of abortion by Priests for Life and other pro-life leaders.
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Police evict ex-nuns who refused to leave convent

WARSAW, Poland – Police evicted several dozen former nuns from a Polish convent after they refused a series of court orders to leave.
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Catholic Charities helps woman find, hold onto job

Shari Lynn Preston nodded out a window in the dining room at Our Daily Bread Employment Center in Baltimore.
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Pope Benedict says Pope Pius worked bravely, secretly to help Jews

VATICAN CITY – Pope Pius XII worked courageously, secretly and silently to help save Jews targeted by the Nazis’ “criminal plan ... to eliminate them from the face of the earth,” said Pope Benedict XVI.
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Our Lady’s Center now rebuilt

The fire that destroyed Our Lady’s Center in Ellicott City in 2001 obviously didn’t touch the heart of the popular spiritual center and gift shop.
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